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Rain sounds

Steady rain, synthesised rather than recorded, so it never loops or repeats.

Why rain works

Rain is the most popular background sound for a reason: it is dense enough to mask a room, has no melody or rhythm to follow, and carries almost no information. Your attention finds nothing to grab hold of, so it lets go. It sits very close to pink noise in how the energy is spread, with enough texture to feel like a place rather than a machine.

It suits falling asleep, reading, studying and long focused work equally well, which is not true of most background sound.

No loop to notice

This rain is generated in your browser as it plays. There is no recording, so there is no loop point, no repeated thunderclap and no data being streamed. Leave it running all night if you want, or use the sleep timer to fade it out after an hour.

For heavier weather, the same channel has a distant storm and a full thunderstorm; for something flatter, try brown noise.

Questions

  • Does the rain loop?

    No. It is synthesised continuously rather than played from a file, so there is no segment that comes back around.

  • Is there thunder in it?

    Not in this one. The Nature channel has separate distant-storm and thunderstorm textures if you want thunder.

  • Will it keep playing overnight?

    Yes, as long as the tab stays open and the device does not sleep. Use the timer if you would rather it stopped.

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